How would you stop a horse (or any other animal) from negative behavior while still using positive reinforcement?

Question: How would you stop a horse (or any other animal) from negative behavior while still using positive reinforcement?
- Keywords:
  behavioural change,
  training
Asked by wewantcedric6 to Carrie on 17 Mar 2017.
- Carrie Ijichi answered on 17 Mar 2017:
  
  Great question. Positive reinforcement actually means adding something to target a behaviour- it’s not actually about whether what you do is nice or not. If you want to know how you stop a horse from doing something negative using rewards then you can reward them for doing the opposite – so if you don’t like them fidgeting around while you try to groom, reward them with a treat when they stand still.

Question: How would you stop a horse (or any other animal) from negative behavior while still using positive reinforcement?